Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people. By Aric Sleeper The United States was founded on the declaration that all people are… more »
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Many women, young people and people of color are motivated to organize and vote by the drumbeat of gun violence. By Errin Haines Students shot to death at a Christian school in Tennessee. Employees killed at a bank in Kentucky. Black… more »
This is an update from INDIVISIBLE about what RepubliKKKans in the House are up to this week House Republicans plan to force a vote on their horrific “Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023,” as early as Wednesday this week. The aptly-named legislation will… more »
What do we know, and what can we support about the following? By Colin Greer 1. The Psychology of the Scarcity Experience Humans across all evolutionary forms have faced scarcity—from the impact of weather on the food supply to competition with nonhuman… more »
A strike authorization by the Writers Guild of America is threatening the television industry’s corporate business model of relying on an underpaid workforce to pay for its mergers. By Sonali Kolhatkar Television has been experiencing a boom in the… more »
When the way things are isn’t working, we can build something better if we draw from our collective power and focus on care and interconnection By April M. Short We are alive in a unique time of challenges that arrive not one by one, but all at once,… more »
Caribbean, Updates and Events, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa By Sophia Kulow When media reports on conflict zones, the gender-based violence that occurs in these areas is often left out in favor of military action. The reality is that conflict… more »
If justices can be bought by billionaires, lifetime terms only enable corruption rather than protect the U.S. Supreme Court from undue influence. By Sonali Kolhatkar A pair of new investigative reports from ProPublica about Supreme Court Justice… more »
If you could speak out in support of people who are being oppressed, discriminated against and legislated into oblivion, and you had a platform where you could reach tens or hundreds or thousands of people all at once, would you use it? In case you… more »
For the first time in nearly 60 years, a state is poised to reverse its “right to work” law and begin to undo the damage of a corporate-driven anti-union trend. By Sonali Kolhatkar Michigan is expected very soon to reverse its so-called… more »